How to Make People Figures From Plastic Pop Bottles

Remove the plastic label from the soda bottle. Wash and dry the bottle and lid. Allow the bottle to dry completely.

Insert a funnel into the bottle and fill the bottom of the bottle with craft sand -- just enough to stabilize the bottle so when it is a doll, it won't tip over. Screw the lid back onto the bottle.

Create a face pattern: Using the Styrofoam ball to brace your pen, trace a 4-inch circle onto a piece of paper. Draw two eyes and a mouth onto the circle. Cut the eyes and mouth out of the circle to create a stencil pattern. Set the pattern aside.

Press the Styrofoam ball onto the soda bottle over the cap and neck section of the bottle. Guesstimate the center of the ball -- it doesn't need to be exact. Remove the ball. There should be a hole the size of the bottle cap and neck pressed into the surface. If necessary, use a butter knife to remove excess Styrofoam from the hole. Dab hot glue into the recess, and quickly place the ball back onto the cap. Let the glue dry.

Slide a flesh-colored sock over the Styrofoam ball. Lay the face-pattern stencil against the ball and pin it in place with a sewing pin. Trace the facial features onto the sock with a permanent marker. Remove the pattern.

Add details to the face with permanent markers. Color in the eyes and lips; if desired, draw rosy cheeks or any other distingushing features for the figure you're creating.

Fasten a twist tie underneath the head (Styrofoam ball). The tie should pull the sock tight and create a neck-like area.

Place a thin line of hot glue underneath the end of the sock and press it onto the bottle.

Hot-glue doll hair to the top of the doll's head.

Mentally divide the bottle into two sections. The bottom section should be longer than the top. Now wrap a wide rectangular piece of felt around the bottle for pants or skirt, and trim it to fit. Hot-glue it in place.

Wrap a narrow rectangular piece of felt around the bottle for a shirt or other top. Make sure to fit the felt over the twist tie to conceal it. Trim it to fit the bottle. Hot-glue it in place. If desired, roll a strip of felt to make a collar for the shirt and hot-glue that in place.

Cut two rectangular strips of felt the same color as the shirt felt for arms. Make sure that the strips are long enough to sit just below the collar and just over the top of the pants. Roll the fabric and hot-glue it to the sides of the bottle.

Add clothing details to your doll's felt clothing with permanent markers.